OK, so alternations are not as fast as I'd like {grin}. Try this... it means the same thing, but in one regex:

comparison: / <=? | = | >=? | != /x
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It's important to understand that a regex is matched left-to-right for alternatives, so you have precise control over the possible matches.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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